Secret Resettlement of Skripals to West Would Be 'Abduction,' Russian Embassy Says

April 10, 2018

Peter Nicholls / Reuters

The Russian Embassy in London said it would consider any secret resettlement of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the former Russian double agent and his daughter who were poisoned last month, as an abduction of its citizens.

Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency is reportedly in discussions with their counterparts in the CIA about resettling the victims to the United States with new identities, The Sunday Times reported. “They’re less likely to be killed there and it’s easier to protect them there under a new identity,” the paper cited an intelligence source familiar with the negotiations as saying.